Well, The Federal Bureau of Investigation has caught me...

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Apparently, the FBI has caught me engaging in 'Illegal' transactions, but in their infinite wisdom, have allowed me to keep my 'ill-gotten gains' and have even been kind enough to deposit my 'blood money' into a special account that has an ATM card attached to it and all I have to do is pay them $200.00 for the release of my card and my funds.



Anti-Terrorist and Monitory Crimes Division.
Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
J. Edgar. Hoover Building, Washington D.C
Telephone Number : (206) 984 - 0470


ATTN: BENEFICIARY

This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an Investigated with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you are having an illegal transaction with Impostors claiming to be Prof. Charles C. Soludo of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Mr Frank Nweke, none officials of Oceanic Bank, none officials of Zenith Bank and some impostors claiming to be the Federal Bureau Of Investigation agents. During our Investigation, it came to our notice that the reason why you have not received your payment is because you have not fulfilled your Financial Obligation given to you in respect of your Contract/Inheritance Payment.

So therefore, we have contacted the Federal Ministry Of Finance on your behalf and they have brought a solution to your problem by coordinating your payment in the total amount of $800,000.00 USD which will be deposited into an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw funds anywhere of the world. You now have the lawful right to claim your funds which have been deposited into the ATM CARD.

Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been involved in this transaction, you are now to be rest assured that this transaction is legitimate and completely risk-free as it is our duty to Protect and Serve citizens of the United States Of America. All you have to do is immediately contact the ATM CARD CENTER via E-mail for instructions on how to procure your Approval Slip which contains details on how to receive and activate your ATM CARD for immediate use to withdraw funds being paid to you. We have confirmed that the amount required to procure the Approval Slip will cost you a total of $200 USD which will be paid directly to the ATM CARD CENTER agent via Western Union Money Transfer / MoneyGram Money Transfer. Below, you shall find contact details of the Agent whom will process your transaction:

CONTACT INFORMATION

NAME: MR. PAUL SMITH
EMAIL: atmpaulsmith1@live.com

Immediately contact Mr. Paul Smith of the ATM Card Center with the following information:

Full Name:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip Code:
Direct Phone Number:
Current Occupation:
Annual Income:

Once you have sent the required information to Mr. Paul Smith he will contact you with instructions on how to make the payment of $200 USD for the Approval Slip after which he will proceed towards delivery of the ATM CARD without any further delay. You have hereby been authorized/guaranteed by the Federal Bureau Of Investigation to commence towards completing this transaction, as there shall be NO delay once payment for the Approval Slip has been made to the authorized agent.

Once you have completed payment of $200 to the agent in charge of this transaction, immediately contact me back so as to ensure your ATM CARD gets to you rapidly.

FBI Director
Robert Mueller.

NOTE: To ensure you have been AUTHORIZED to pay the required fee's stated above, kindly find below an Authorized Signature and also our Federal Bureau Of Investigation NSB ( National Security Branch ) Seal to accurately guarantee your safety towards completing this transaction.

&nb sp; &n bsp; Authorized Signature

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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Riley
    Damn. I never got one of these. I'm sure I've dealt with a couple of those names. I feel so neglected now.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kevin AKA Hubcap
      You should feel special. Make sure to get your ATM card!!
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
        Curious that Mr. Smith doesn't have an eMail at the ATM Card Center dot Com or something.

        Anyway, I wonder what happens if you tell them your annual income is -$200? I mean, can't they just take the $200 out of the $800,000 due you? Heck, be generous and let them keep 10%. You're losing $200 a year anyway; you'll be perfectly happy receiving $720,000. ;-)
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  • Profile picture of the author winebuddy
    Yikes - a new one! Why don't they just ask you to donate $200 to save the planet or something?
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  • Profile picture of the author Barry Goss
    The gullible always will roam the earth in troves... which is precisely why people spend their time writing fictitious @#$% like this.

    It's ALSO why we're interviewing the author of "People Are Idiots and I can Prove It" this Thursday, Jan 15th, at 9pm EST
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  • Profile picture of the author Eric Stanley
    haha....

    hahahahahahaha... Sorry these are just CLASSIC.
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    • Profile picture of the author Corwinnx
      ok, this is too much. I just got another one from "The Federal Bureau of Investigation." Now I've won the lottery, also, $800,000, but I must first send $850.00. Three of these in one day. Amazing.


      Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division.
      Federal Bureau Of Investigation.
      Seattle, Washington.
      Telephone Number : (206) 426-5029


      ATTN: BENEFICIARY

      This is to Officially inform you that it has come to our notice and we have thoroughly completed an Investigation with the help of our Intelligence Monitoring Network System that you legally won the sum of $800,000.00 USD from a Lottery Company outside the United States of America. During our investigation we discovered that your e-mail won the money from an Online Balloting System and we have authorized this winning to be paid to you via a Certified Cashier's Check.



      Normally, it will take up to 10 business days for an International Check to be cashed by your local bank. We have successfully notified this company on your behalf that funds are to be drawn from a registered bank within the United States Of America so as to enable you cash the check instantly without any delay, henceforth the stated amount of $800,000.00 USD has been deposited with Bank Of America.


      We have completed this investigation and you are hereby approved to receive the winning prize as we have verified the entire transaction to be Safe and 100% risk free, due to the fact that the funds have been deposited at Bank Of America you will be required to settle the following bills directly to the Lottery Agent in-charge of this transaction whom is located in Lagos, Nigeria. According to our discoveries, you were required to pay for the following -


      (1) Deposit Fee's ( Fee's paid by the company for the deposit into an American Bank which is - Bank Of America )
      (2) Cashier's Check Conversion Fee ( Fee for converting the Wire Transfer payment into a Certified Cashier's Check )
      (3) Shipping Fee's ( This is the charge for shipping the Cashier's Check to your home address and this fee includes Insurance )


      The total amount for everything is $850.00 (Eight Hundred-Fifty US Dollars). We have tried our possible best to indicate that this $850.00 should be deducted from your winning prize but we found out that the funds have already been deposited at Bank Of America and cannot be accessed by anyone apart from you the winner, therefore you will be required to pay the required fee's to the Agent in-charge of this transaction via Western Union Money Transfer Or Money Gram.


      In order to proceed with this transaction, you will be required to contact the agent in-charge ( Mr. Benson Edward ) via e-mail. Kindly look below to find appropriate contact information:


      CONTACT AGENT NAME: MR. BENSON EDWARD

      E-MAIL ADDRESS: bensonedward@inMail24.com

      Telephone Number : +234-806-385-5189

      You will be required to e-mail him with the following information:

      FULL NAME:
      ADDRESS:
      CITY:
      STATE:
      ZIP CODE:
      DIRECT CONTACT NUMBER:

      You will also be required to request Western Union details on how to send the required $850.00 in order to immediately ship your prize of $800,000.00 USD via Certified Cashier's Check drawn from Bank Of America, also include the following transaction code in order for him to immediately identify this transaction : EA2948-910.

      This letter will serve as proof that the Federal Bureau Of Investigation is authorizing you to pay the required $850.00 ONLY to Mr. Benson Edward via information in which he shall send to you, if you do not receive your winning prize of $800,000.00 we shall be held responsible for the loss and this shall invite a penalty of $3,000 which will be made PAYABLE ONLY to you (The Winner).

      Please find below an authorized signature which has been signed by the FBI Director- Robert Mueller, also below is the FBI NSB (National Security


      FBI Director
      Robert Mueller.



      Authorized Signature



      NSB SEAL ABOVE
      NOTE: In order to ensure your check gets delivered to you ASAP, you are advised to immediately contact Mr. Benson Edward via contact information provided above and make the required payment of $850.00 to information in which he shall provide to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author coog
    Haven't seen that one
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  • Profile picture of the author Doug Simons
    frigin unbelievable and I can almost guarantee you that some one right now is falling for that
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  • Profile picture of the author Don Schenk
    Well Marcus, just send them the money and you'll be wealthy above avarice!

    And Kevin, the FBI is only for the USA. Don't you all know nuttin?

    A couple years ago there was a local lady in the news because she fell for one of the 409 scams and wired money to who knows where after she received a bogus check for a larger amount.

    The local bank was now tring to get her prosecuted by the county for theft from the bank.

    A friend of mine who should know better fell for a phishing scam.

    Enough people must fall for these cons otherwise they wouldn't keep running the scams.

    :-Don
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  • Profile picture of the author Pete Egeler
    Well shoot. I never got the second one. Suppose that I won $8500K too?

    I passed on the first one 'cause I never got the Nigerian contact's name.

    I'm always missing out on the big money.

    Pete
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  • Profile picture of the author jimtex
    Jeez I get about 0ne of those type emails once a week. Must think we are dumber than dirt
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  • Profile picture of the author imoutthere
    Just to mess with him, you should point out his misspellings and critique his sales letter.

    But, that might lead you to win alot more unclaimed money within the next few months. LOL.
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  • Profile picture of the author The Lady
    that is to funny, and far more original than i've seen before..... well yet.

    n as far as imoutthere's suggestion - that's not a bad idea, if not for the downside, lol
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    • Profile picture of the author tom42357
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Grable
        I received one of these a while back. Mine was from the Director of the CIA!
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      Well, still no FBI messages for me. I'm feeling left out.

      But, I did get a notice just now that my PayPal account access has been limited due to my account being accessed by a third party... in May 2008!!! Wow. Glad the PayPal phishers are really on top of things...
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      • Profile picture of the author JerryIL
        Been getting this type of spam for about a month now into my gmail account and can only delete them I guess.
        Some coming from countries I never heard of. Wish there was a way to put a stop to them.
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        • Profile picture of the author jmidas
          Here's the real victim of this stuff - not quite the same email as you got today, but the same concept. This woman sent over 400K before her family, friends and police finally stopped her. Wonder why we keep getting crap like this?


          http://www.katu.com/news/34292654.html
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          • Profile picture of the author viryabosmith
            If you want to ''Reap where you did not Sow'', of course you fall for those scams. The scammers are aware that there is someone out there, who is .....a little (or a lot!!) greedy, and simply gullible..........., and WHAM!!!!, the victim is in the net.
            Making money doing nothing, to me personally, is IMPOSSIBLE.
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  • Profile picture of the author Karen Blundell
    sad..I get these emails too...I also get the ones where a job is offered to you to act as a financial middle person of some company abroad. Right!
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  • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
    I almost miss the ones I used to get telling me they could make me an ordained Minister. I guess they must have thought eventually that I was too busy sinning like fury to reply. Either that or they figured I'd finally saved enough wool to make one of my own
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas Wilkinson
    I have taken to "coding" my signup info for things like AARP
    (yeah, I'm old). I change my middle initial so I can tell how many
    times they sell their information and to whom. Whenever I get
    junk mail addressed to Thomas "A" I know its off that signup. I also
    have several "junk" gmail accounts so I can always toss one if the
    spam gets too bad.

    Tom

    Edit: A few years ago I was really, really tempted to post all my exes
    info on line. Of course I had it all, we were married for 84 years.
    SS#, Mothers maiden name, etc. I hope somebody "up there" noticed
    that I never actually did it.
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  • Profile picture of the author BrainDance
    Just this week a naive friend of mine got scammed out of 200 for a 'girl' he met on a dating site. believe it or not it took me THREE days to convince him she wasn't real and that he was scammed. oy!
    I ended up proving it to him by contacting the 'girl' as a 'man', she sent me the same messages she/he sent my friend.
    A blonde,architect from Florida working in Nigeria as a missionary, with 4 non matching photos, who never heard of the Marlins still didnt red flag him. poor guy. stinkin nigerians.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jonathan Heusman
      Those always crack me up, but it is always sad hearing some little old lady that falls for it and ends up losing half her savings. There is actually a sort of community online that was dedicated to messing with these guys and turning the tables. I am not sure if they still do it, since I haven't checked out the site where they post their stories of turning the tables, but it was quite entertaining.

      Here is the site I was thinking of: 419Eaters
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  • Profile picture of the author Fender85
    LOL, like the DIRECTOR of the FBI is going to contact you directly. LOVE IT!
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  • Profile picture of the author star lit
    I received one of these today.
    But do the FBI investigate the affairs of citizens from other countries?

    I receive spam like this on a daily basis.
    It's best to ignore it or I add them to my list of spammers.
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    • Profile picture of the author jmidas
      star, you can add it to your list of spammers, but it wont stop you from getting them.

      I've just come to accept that I will get all sorts of garbage in my inbox. Thats what the delete button is for. I just hate that innocent, unknowing folks actually fall for this stuff and get taken advantage of.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Hoey
    email them back and pretend to be falling for their scam, get their details and forward it onto someone who can do somehting about it or get them tog et a tattoo like some guy somewhere did one time.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chaiwriter
    Originally Posted by Corwinnx View Post

    Since the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been involved in this transaction, you are now to be rest assured that this transaction is legitimate and completely risk-free as it is our duty to Protect and Serve citizens of the United States Of America.
    That's my favorite part!

    Hahahahaha.

    If that doesn't gain your trust then nothing will!

    Congrats on your new found wealth!

    Chai
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